Linda Holmes

It's not.

Interesting.

I definitely did not like it as much as you guys did.

My feeling was I enjoyed it while I watched it and I will never think about it ever again in my life.

And it doesn't feel to me like a real movie.

It feels to me like something you would do for like a charity event or a Super Bowl commercial.

Like I enjoyed seeing these people play these characters again.

I enjoyed seeing them with each other again.

But I think the story is extraordinarily thin and

And I think the first like hour of the movie is mostly what I would consider shenanigans.

And it's just kind of Andy going back into the office and she's lingering outside Miranda's office.

And later in the film, they start to pull on a couple of threads that I think are substantially more interesting, one of which is Miranda's deep grief about the sense that her

identity, which is tied up in her work, is going away as a result of the way that her industry is collapsing.

I think that's very interesting.

They spend, I think, only kind of a couple of moments on it, unfortunately.

The other is the way that mid-career professionals here, that would be Emily and Andy, are

find themselves kind of haunted by scars from bad experiences with old jobs and old bosses.

I think the only thing I would really disagree with is I do not think that this is the

You know, the Miranda of the first movie was very different from the Miranda of the book.

The Miranda of the book does not get the sort of soft redemption of the end of the movie where it turns out she's like, she's not that bad.